Preface Introduction Sharefarming in England: Theory and Practice Sharefarming Before 1500: a Hidden Practice Sharefarming Comes to Light: Early Modern Evidence Seventeenth-Century Case Studies: Farming to Halves on Four Norfolk Estates Sharefarming Disappears from the Documents in the Eighteenth Century Profit Sharing and Land Reform in the Nineteenth Century A Return to Halves in the Twentieth Century Sharefarming at the Turn of the 21st Century Conclusions Appendix I: A Survey of Sharefarming and its Variants in England Appendix II: Letting to Halves at East and West Rudham in 1693 Notes Bibliography Index